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TRIP HIGHLIGHT
Heritage Wine
33 Country 1 Bordeaux
Gourmet Bordeaux is a
city of sublime food and
long, lazy sun-drenched
days. Half the city (18
10am: the southern sun warms your face sq km) is Unesco-listed,
and you’re standing in a field surrounded by making it the largest
urban World Heritage
vines heavy with ready-to-burst grapes. 1pm: site – and an absolutely
cutlery clinks, tummies sigh in bliss and you’re delight to wander around
(p410). Barista-run coffee
on a gastronomic adventure in a top-class shops, super-food food
restaurant. 7pm: toes in the sand, Atlantic trucks, an exceptional
dining scene and more
breezes in your hair and you down an oyster in fine wine than you could
one. All this and more awaits on this refined ever possibly drink make
it a city hard to resist.
culinary trip.

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